Template:Did you know nominations/Downtown Athletic Club

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:01, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Downtown Athletic Club

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• ... that New York City's Downtown Athletic Club, famous for giving out the Heisman Trophy, didn't accept women members for 51 years? Source: NYCLPC, NY Times 1977
  • ALT1:... that New York City's Downtown Athletic Club closed after the September 11 attacks, having previously finalized a plan to recover from bankruptcy? Source: ESPN
  • ALT2:... that New York City's Downtown Athletic Club had a swimming pool which was described as the world's highest aquatic facility? Source: ESPN
  • ALT3: ... that New York City's Downtown Athletic Club, an athletic club for white-collar workers of lower Manhattan, didn't accept women members for 51 years? Source: NYCLPC, NY Times 1977
  • ALT4: ... that the Downtown Athletic Club, which gave out the Heisman Trophy to recognize the most outstanding college football player, named the award after its first athletic director? Source: NY Times 2006

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mères of France
• Comment: Expanded 5x from the previous version; revisions from 2005 to 2020 contained a now-redacted copyright violation so DYKcheck may not account for this.

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 18:47, 14 February 2020 (UTC).

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Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: I had to correct a typo and the coordinates, which were overprecise and pointed to the wrong building. I assume the nominator used WP:CALC to get the 51 years figure. Abductive (reasoning) 20:13, 15 February 2020 (UTC)